The Portal Project

White EP, Ernest SKM, Adler PB, Hurlbert AH, Lyons SK.  2010.  Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understand biological diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365:3633-3643.

Thibault KM, Ernest SKM, White EP, Brown JH, Goheen JR.  2010.  Long-term insights into the influence of precipitation on community dynamics in desert rodents. Journal of Mammalogy. 91:787-797. Abstract

Thibault KM, Ernest MSK, Brown JH.  2010.  Redundant or complementary? Impact of a colonizing species on community structure and function Oikos. 119:1719-1726.

Ernest SKM, Valone TJ, Brown JH.  2009.  Long-term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology. 90:1708.

Morlon H, White EP, Etienne R, Green JL, Ostling A, Alonso D, Enquist BJ, He F, Hurlbert AH, Magurran AE et al..  2009.  Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters. 12:488-501.

Lima M, Stenseth NC, Ernest SKM, Brown JH, Belgrano A.  2008.  Chihuahuan Desert kangaroo rats:non-linear effects of intra-population processes, interspecific competition, and summer rainfall. Ecology. 89:2594-2603.

Valone TJ, Barber NA.  2008.  An empirical evaluation of the insurance hypothesis in diversity-stability models. Ecology. 89:522-531.

Thibault KM, Brown JH.  2008.  Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 105:3410-3415.

Ernest SKM, Brown JH, Thibault KM, White EP, Goheen JR.  2008.  Zero-sum, the niche, and metacommunities: long-term dynamics of community assembly. American Naturalist. 32:E257-E269.

Houlahan JE, Currie DJ, Cottenie K, Cummings GS, Ernest SKM, Findlay CS, Fuhlendorf SD, Gaedke U, Legendre P, Magnuson JJ et al..  2007.  Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 104:3273-3277.

White EP, Gilchrist MA.  2007.  Effects of population level aggregation, autocorrelation, and interspecific association on the species-time relationship in two desert communities. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 9:1329-1347.

Castellano MJ, Valone TJ.  2007.  Livestock, soil compaction and water infiltration rate: Evaluating a potential desertification recovery mechanism. Journal of Arid Environments. 71:97-108.

Valone TJ, Schutzenhofer MR.  2007.  Reduced rodent biodiversity destabilizes plant populations. Ecology. 88:26-31.

White EP.  2007.  Spatiotemporal scaling of species richness: patterns, processes and implications. Scaling Biodiversity. :325-346.

McGill BJ, Etienne R, Gray J, Alonso D, Anderson M, Benecha H, Dornelas M, Enquist BJ, He F, Hurlbert AH et al..  2007.  Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. Ecology Letters. 10:995-1015.

White EP, Adler PB, Lauenroth WK, Gill RA, Greenberg D, Kaufman DM, Rassweiler A, Rusak JA, Smith MD, Steinbeck JR et al..  2006.  A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos. 112:185-195.

Goheen JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2006.  Intraguild competition regulates species richness in desert rodents: reply. Ecology. 87:2121-2125.

Schutzenhofer MR, Valone TJ.  2006.  Positive and negative effects of exotic Erodium cicutarium on an arid ecosystem. Biological Conservation. 132:376-381.

Yin ZY, Guo QF, Ren H, Peng SL.  2005.  Seasonal changes in spatial patterns of two annual plants in the Chihuahuan Desert, USA. Plant Ecology. 178(2):189-199. Abstract

Ernest SKM.  2005.  Body size, energy use, and community structure of small mammals. Ecology. 86:1407-1413.

Adler PB, White EP, Lauenroth WK, Kaufman DM, Rassweiler A, Rusak JA.  2005.  Evidence for a general species-time-area relationship. Ecology. 86:2032-2039.

Valone TJ, Kaspari M.  2005.  Interactions between granivorous and omnivorous ants in a desert grassland: results from a long-term experiment. Ecological Entomology. 30:116-121.

Goheen JR, White EP, Ernest SKM, Brown JH.  2005.  Intra-guild compensation regulates species richness in desert rodents. Ecology. 86:567-573.

Thibault KM, White EP, Ernest SKM.  2004.  Temporal dynamics in the structure and composition of a desert rodent community. Ecology. 85:2649-2655.

White EP, Ernest SKM, Thibault KM.  2004.  Tradeoffs in community properties through time in a desert rodent community. American Naturalist. 164:670-676.